foolish是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 愚笨的， 愚蠢的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Go, then, and challenge him again but I should advise you not to do so, for if you are foolish enough to meet him in single combat, you will soon fall by his spear.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed to me to be the victim of his own foolish sentimentality.
-- Foolish as it seems to me now, I had not reckoned that, transparent or not, I was still amenable to the weather and all its consequences.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, after a pause again: 'I did a foolish thing the other day.
-- I was almost moved to batter his foolish head in, as he lay there helpless at my feet.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Baloo knows it; I know it; the Pack know it; and even the foolish, foolish deer know.
-- 'Indeed,' Baloo began, 'I am no more than the old and sometimes very foolish Teacher of the Law to the Seeonee wolf-cubs, and Bagheera here ' 'Is Bagheera,' said the Black Panther, and his jaws shut with a snap, for he did not believe in being humble.
-- The monkeys dragged him into the Cold Lairs late in the afternoon, and instead of going to sleep, as Mowgli would have done after a long journey, they joined hands and danced about and sang their foolish songs.
-- 'They have no Law, no Hunting Call, and no leaders nothing but foolish words and little pick-ing thievish hands.
-- Sore, sleepy, and hun-gry as he was, Mowgli could not help laughing when the Bandar-log began, twenty at a time, to tell him how great and wise and strong and gentle they were, and how foolish he was to wish to leave them.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Foolish though it may be, you have often heard me avow my faith in the tones of the human voice!'
-- Have you so soon forgotten from whom you received the foolish instrument you hold in your hand?'
-- he exclaimed, addressing himself to the savage who had a slight understanding of the language in which he spoke; 'the Yengeese, my foolish countrymen, have told them to take up the tomahawk, and strike their fathers in the Canadas, and they have forgotten their sex.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ichahod Crane had a soft and foolish heart towards the sex; and it is not to be wondered at, that so tempting a mor-sel soon found favor in his eyes, more especially after he had visited her in her paternal mansion.
-- His notable little wife, too, had enough to do to attend to her housekeeping and manage her poultry; for, as she sagely observed, ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remembered from my previous meeting with him that he had a foolish face, and was proud of the fact that for the ten years before he left the army he had played polo three days a week.
-- "This foolish wife of mine thinks I'm a great artist," said he.
-- Dirk Stroeve, telling the story, had such a look of blank astonishment on his round, foolish face that it was almost impossible not to laugh.
-- He said all this slowly, detaching statement from statement with a little awkward silence, and he kept his kind, foolish eyes fixed on mine.
-- Blanche Stroeve didn't commit suicide because I left her, but because she was a foolish and unbalanced woman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Foolish Nell!'
-- Dick looked rather pale and foolish when he glanced at the direction, and still more so when he came to look at the inside, observing that it was one of the inconveniences of being a lady's man, and that it was very easy to talk as they had been talking, but he had quite forgotten her.
-- The rain was rattling against the windows and pouring down in torrents, and such was Mr Codlin's extreme amiability of mind, that he more than once expressed his earnest hope that they would not be so foolish as to get wet.
-- 'We can't help it now,' said his mother; 'but it was foolish and wrong.
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